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Cisco IP Phone 7940/7960 SIP Message Sequence Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA26547
Release Date: 2007-08-21
Last Update: 2007-08-22
Popularity: 13,193 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Cisco IP Phone 7940
Cisco IP Phones 7960

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Description:
The Madynes research team at INRIA Lorraine has reported some vulnerabilities in Cisco IP Phone 7940 and 7960, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the handling of certain SIP message sequences. These can be exploited to reboot the device by sending a series of specially crafted SIP messages.

The vulnerabilities are reported in firmware version POS3-08-6-00.

Solution:
Update to firmware version 8.7(0).
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sip-ip-phone7960?psrtdcat20e2

Provided and/or discovered by:
Madynes research team at INRIA Lorraine

Changelog:
2007-08-22: Updated "Solution" section. Added vendor link. Added the Cisco IP Phone 7960 as affected product.

Original Advisory:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-August/065401.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-August/065402.html

Cisco:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/p...ecurity_response09186a00808a6693.html


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